Well it was important obviously to make sure the right situations and the right facts were there, I knew the situation obviously and I knew what was going on but the most important thing was to sit down and take my time and really looking at all the positives and the negatives of all the things that were there so I really think the most important thing is that I am very happy at Preston North End and always have been. There’s some wonderful people at this football club there’s no doubt about it, the fans have been excellent the board have been first class, the payers and everybody else so that was a major influence as to why I decided to stay.

Well not at all I think the small section of the fans need to understand that these are the games that are played in the press and the one thing we don’t do is we don’t believe everything we read because we know they situation. The facts are that we know exactly what is going on in the football club and the reason why we’ve had such success is because of the team effort and the team spirit within the club all the way from the cleaner to the chairman we have that great togetherness so that’s the one thing we have here and one thing we are now looking forward to carrying on next season.

Well I think that’s vital there’s no doubt about it he is my right arm as they say that’s a fact and I’m delighted and also very happy that Ned is also, looking forward to next season and what we’re trying to achieve because we are a team and we’ve always been a team and hopefully for a long long time we’ll be a very good team.

Yeah of course that’s the situation and the one thing the chairman gave me was that he was wanting to take the club forward and we want to do the right things and that’s very very important we know we have to build on last season and that will be very difficult as we keep saying, but as we keep saying when you have that willingness to try and achieve from everyone in the club then it was obviously a major factor for Ned and I first of all to be here and delighted to be taking it forward.

Well contrary to the reports about fallouts and disagreements the facts are we’ve been doing this for along time we’re very happy here and there’s great relationships in the club and so on and as I said you can’t believe everything you read. The important thing is that we have started preparations we are already preparing and looking at one or two targets and one or two situations that may be able to take us forward and we’ll continue to do this before the start of the season.

Well it isn’t really its about realism and we know that last season we over-achieved there’s no doubt about it we know the size of the clubs we’ll be facing this season, I will be under illusion for next season, the first target is 53 points and then we can hopefully reset it from there, the most important thing as I said before is not to get too carried away it will be very hard next season without the surprise element. People will now start to sit up and take note because of what we’ve done last season so we’ve got to be prepared for that and look forward the challenge but it will be the same again, 53 points and hopefully from there we can go on and get a top half finish.